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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07
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THE LIoHT.

There Is no shadow where my love is laid:
For lever thus / fancy in my dream
That wakes with me and wakes my sleep,
some CLEAN
OF sunlight, thrusting through the poplar
shade,
Falls there; and even when the wind has
played
HIS requiem for the Day, one stray sun.
beam,
Pale as the palest moonlight glimmers
seen,
Keeps sentinel for her till starIights
fade
And /, remaining here and waiting long,
And all EMBODIED in my sorrows night,
Who not on earth again her face may
see
For even Memory does her likeness wrong
And blind and hopeless, only for this
light
This light, this light through all the
years to be-
II G. B,mner. IN the Century
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Cooking Cereals.


The main secret in the preparation Of
cereals, says Cool Housekeeping, is
thorough cooking; and this necessitates
cooking them slowly, in the proper guam
tity of liquid, fof considerable length
of time. A great deal has been written
about preparing mushes for the table in
from two to twenty minutes, and many
cooks serve them prepared in that length
Of time but all cereals are more diges-
tible and much finer favored when
thoroughly cooked. The table given be-
low will be found approximately accurate
as regards the proportions of grain and
liquid to be used, and the length Of time
required to perfectly cook the following
grains and grain products:
Pearled Wheat-Five measures of
liquid TO each measure of wheat Cook
from four to six hours.
Pearled Barley-Five measures of
liquid to each measure of barley. Cook
from four to six hours.
Coarse Hominy-Five measures of
liquid to each measure of hominy. Cook
from six to ten hours.
Fine Hominy-Four measures of liquid
to each measure of hominy. Cook from
four to six houfs.
Coarse Oatmeal-Four measures of
liquid to each measure of oatmeal Cook
from four to six hours.
Rolled Wheat Three measures of
liquid to each measure of wheat. Cook
two hours.
Rolled Barley.-Three measures of
liquid to each measure of barley. Cook
two houfs.
Rolled Oats (Avena)-ThIee measures
of liquid to each measure of oats. Cook
an hour.
Rice-Three measures of liquid to each
measure of rice. Cook an hour.
Farina-Six measures of liquid to each
measure Of farina. Cook half an hour
to an hour.
Cerealine Flakes-One measure of
liquid to each measure of cerealine
Cook half an hour.
Water alone can be used for cooking
any of the cereals, but most of them are
richer and finer favored when the liquid
used is milk and water, mixed in about
equal proportions. Especially is this the
case with barley, rice, hominy and farina.
The quantity of salt that should be used
in cooking cereals is largely matter
of individual taste, as some people like
considerable, and some very little, salt in
their food. A safe general rule, how
ever, to follow, is to add half a teaspoon
ful of salt to each pint of liquid.
All cereals can be cooked very per-
fectly in an ordinary agate ware or por
celain lined stew-pan, if carefully
watched and stirred; but, as much stir
ring renders cereals starchy, and robs
them of good deal of their finest tiavors,
double boiler, frequently called a
farina boiler, is much the best and most
convenient utensil for cooking mushes
and grains of every kind.
To cook cereals in a double boiler:
Fill the outside boiler two-thirds full of
boiling water, put the necessary quantity
of liquid in the inside kettle, add the
requisite amount of salt, and when
it boils, sprinkle in the grain or meal,
stirring slowly until it swells or thickens
enough to keep it from settling to the
bottom of the kettle. Then cease stir
ring, and let it toii-sloyly until thor
oughly cooked. All mushes thieken in
cooling, and in preparing cereals to be
eaten cold the proportion of liquid
should be increased at least one-t third.
That Is all good advice.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07

The prize of $40, 900 offered by the
French Government for the most valua.
able discovery relating to the utilization
OF electricity isto be awarded soon. II
Is for any use or application of electricity,
namely, as source of heat, of light or Of
chep1ical action, as a means of transmits
sion echanical power, or Of verbal
commupsckion in any form, or, finally,
ss . Curative apent.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07

One of the most appropriate and use
ful vocations into VIII ch women are en-
tering in some numbers is that of nursing
Every year, says the Boston Courier, the
training schools for nurses are gradual.
ing larger classes, and the supply is yet
far short of the demand. The profession
Of nurse is one of great importance. and
while it demands health. ability and
devotion, il is well.paid and whoever
fathfully fellows it may enjoy the con-
sciOnsness y being Of great use in the
world; while it is happily free from that
publicity which in so many of the avoca-
tions into which women have pushed
themselves so hopelessly hardens them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07
STARLIGHT.

A myriad stars have guided men TO fame,
Have kept them pure by looking to their
light,
And in the blachest depths Of sorrows
night
Have been to them eternally the same,
Filling their souls with truths unchanginR
iiame.
And rousing weaklings up to deeds Of
might,
Inspiring them in life's unceasing fight
To keep their purposefree from blot or blame
SO shalt thou be, my love, my star and sun,
To guide and light me through my lifes
short day
To be in joys or pains my rest, my stay,
And IL perchance before my course isrun
A victor's crown shall fall upon my brow.
Thou still shalt be my star as thou art
now.
Thomas @. Marquis, in the Current
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07

A German paper says there is no longer
any sword making industry in Damascus.
What was once known as the sword
trade is now occupied with converting
she blades OF old saws and pieces of or
dinary iron into daggers; and cheap
swords and rifles of Solingen and Bir.
mingham make are brought up, finished
and decorated in Oriental style, and put
upon the market as weapons of Arabian
and Damascus origin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07
Only a Crown.

King George II. was the last of the
monarchs who made fixed residence
at st. James's palace. 1t was his Queen,
Caroline, who, being stirring kind of
woman, planned all sorts of improve
ments about the royal parks and palaces; /;
among others the exclusion of the public
from all royal enclosures. She asked of
the Prime Minister what would be the
cost of this last arrangement.
"Only crown, madam" replied the
polite man; and the Queen took warn.
ing and stayed her hand. --AH the Ysar
Round.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07
The Switzerland of Africn.

Like tie Swiss, the Kabyles have an
intense love of their country. They
love 1t for its very savageness, IN which
every peak and crag seems to frown de-
tiance at an invader. They are as jealous
of its independence as the brave warriors
of Montenegro. Those who have fought
for generations against the Turk in the
passes of the Back Mountains, overlook.
ing the Adriatic, have not shown more
vRlor than the natives of Kabylia. This
courage flames out clearest aud brightest
in the moments of 81 eatest danger One
custom they have which shows that the
blood of heroes is in their veins. When
tidings of an invasion come TO their noun.
tain retreats, the whole land rises up at
the sound of war. The young men OF
the different tribes enter into solemn
'league and covenant, which might be
called the league of death, since all who
JON in it swear to die for their country.
So complete is this offering up of their
lives, that the prayers for the dead are
read over them, so that when they go
forth to battle they are already as dead
men, and have only TO seek the place
where they may give up their lives. If,
indeed they annihilate the enemy, they
may return and lice. But if the foe is
still in the field, they must seek death
until they find it. If one were to fee in
the day of battle and return to his tribe,
he would be received as the Athenians
received the one survivor of ThermopyI,e.
He would be an outcast in his tribe,
doomed to suffer thousand insults worse
than death. But for those who are
killed there is e ory here and rest here
after. Their souls ascend to paradise,
while their bodies are buried apart, in a
place which is thus rendered forever
sacred, and to which pious Moslems will
come and pray over the dust of their
heroic dead. -Seribae1's Magazine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07
His Big Bumps.

A gentleman entered a phrenologist's
office in Boston and asked to have his
head examined. After a moments in
spection the professor started back, eX.
claiming 'Good gracious you have
the most unaccountable combination Of
attributes l ever discovered in human
b ing, Were your parents eceentricq
NO sir" replied the all-around
character, meekly, "but my wife isl
You needn't pay any attention to the
larger bumps, sir ~ Burlington Free
Pelss
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07
wild Ponies on the southern Coast.

w liu OultS vi tut OOutucIH OOdSt.
On the banks or sand bars that divide
the Atlantic Ocean from Pamlico Sound,
North Carolina, just inside the light
house that marks out to the mariner
dreaded Cape Lookout, there is to be
found hardy race of ponies known as
Bankers" These ponies have lived
there as long as the tradition of the old
est inhabitant dates back. Entirely sur
rounded by deep water at all seasons,
having no communication with tiie main
land, aud being barren of vegetation save
a scanty growth of sedge grass and low
shrubs, the banks have remained unin-
habited except by these ponies, which
seem to thrive and multiply in spite of
the hardships to which they are exposed.
How they first came there, or of what
origin, is conjecture, and tradition mere
ly hints the story of a violent storm, with
its attendant shipwreck and loss of all on
board, save lot of ponies from some
European port, which were cast upon the
sands, and surviving the storm became
the progenitors of the race of Bankers
now so numerous. Having to rely on in
stinct alone, these animals are subject
of study to the naturalist, as they are
prey not only to the driving sands, but
to the storms of the Cape, that break
upon and over the narrow sand bar and
change with each recurring hurricane the
topography of the country. The ponies
choosing the protected side of the sand
hillocks, burrOw deep into the yielding
sand, and stamp out protected stall
where they take refuge from the storm
and while many are destroyed, theii
number has increased American Agyt
cliituJ.isf
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07

George Alfred Townsend gives the fol-
lowing account of the origin of the great
Leland STAFFORD University in California:
On the night on which his only son ed
Of fever, at Florence, Italy, Senator Stan
ford, worn out with watching, lay asleep
in room adjoining that of the patient
The doors between the rooms were
closed, and while the father slept the boy
died. In his sleep Senator Stanford heard
his son say to him: Father, don't say
you have nothing to live for; you have
great deal to live for. Live for hu-
manity, father Senator Sanford awoke
and told his wife of his dream. At that
moment, 1t may be said, the Stanford
University was bora.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07

Indians have built up considerable
carrying trade along the Pacific coast In
their largo% %nRes, hewn out of tho solid
trunks Of immense trees, they carry dairy
and farm products for the settlers and re.
turn with groceries and other supplies.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07

London has great problem. It has
2, 600, 900 people unable to get into
OF worship. In central London, with
tpopalntion Of 1000, 900, there are only
heronmodations for 600, 600.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07
Courting a widow.

Smith: ~ say, Dumley, you have had
some experience in love Affairs, aud
want your advice. There is pretty little
widow in Harlem whom l devotedly
love. In paying my addresses how often
ought 10 call upon herr
Dumley "she is q widow, you sayp
smith "Yes
Dumley; Seven nights in the week,
my boy, with a Wednesday ard saturday
matinee "-Ne Yofk EDsci
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07

An Iowa woman filed long felt want
In her neighborhood by cleaning out,
unaidcd except ty a stove litter and a
lively yellow dog, gangof four tramps
that had oeen terrorizing the vicinity for
nks. She will probably be asked to
llmpige. fIH professional baseball clubs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07
It is estimated that the wealth Of tn,

!. It is estimated that the wealth Of the
following countries is increased annually
BY the sums named: Germany, 5000,
apeO, 200; Great Britain, 1925, 600, 600; ;
Fanee, 1915, 900, 900, and the United
state& 1875, 600, 600. The United States
is already the wealthicst nation in the
world, and, as tie above figures show,
Its wealth is increasing the most rapidly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07
Her Preference.

you'll please pardon me-
He glanced playfully-
IF really my question should tire.
Do you care for men tall,
Or those who are small
What kind Of men do you admirep
Her lashes quick fell
And yelled her eyes well
''Nopardon for such request;
like mankind all
Both little and tall,
But then ! like Hyuen the best"
-B0st0a Budget.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07

The farmers losses through drought
plone iRlss7, have been estimated at
$500, - 600, and they win probably
exceed that enormous sum.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-07

High up among the Tuscan mountains,
not fur from the borders of Lombardy, is
a tiny hamlet called Piatico. 1t has q
church, and the few strangers who visit
the quiet little nook and enter the humble
sanctuary wonder at the handsome lace
decorating the Madonna's blue silk petit
coat. All the rest of the ornamentation
IS so tawdry and poor that the delicate
fabric looks strangely out of place. How
came it therel is a question the old
woman who unlocks the door is proud
to answer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22

onion about as large as turkey egg chopped
up fine, two or three small pieces of red
pepper, and salt to suit the taste. gene
rally put about a teaspoOnful TO a quart
This catsup preserves all the fresh flavor of
the cucumber and is particularly nice with
meats and fish. 1t will keep for several
years if your vinegar is pure cider vinegar
TUMBLERs FOR PRESERVES. would
suggest that tumblers be used to put up
preserves and jellies in, as they are cheap
and hold just enough for one meal for an
ordinary family and thereby doing away
with all danger of fermentation Every
housekeeper knows that partially filed
jar of preserves soon ferments. The cheap
est kind of glasses will answer every pur-
pose Mine hold rather over half pint
and cost 25c. per dozen, and are really quite
neat looking glasses and will do to use for
other purposes after the preserves are out
sometimes just set the tumbler of pre-
serves on the table When have filled the
glasses with preserves / cut out a piece of
paper just TO fit inside of the glass, dipped
it in whisky or brandy and pressed it down
on the preserves smoothly and firmly. Over
the top of the glasses | now pasted two
thicknesses of paper which made an almost
air-tight covering.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
Pecans in Florida.

There is no doubt that pecans can be
grown with great profit in Florida. A gem
tleman who lives in Florida gives his expe-
rience with pecans as follows: II ordered
from New Orleans in the winter of 1882 one
barrel paper shell variety, costing me S2l IS
at this station. The nuts were planted in
the spring of 1882 in nursery form. When
the trees were three years old | commenced
to transplant them in new piece of land,
what is known in Florida as fiatwoods. |
now have about 900 trees all transplanted,
many of them over 10 feet high and from
IL to inches at the base. have been
obliged to support many Of them with stakes
to hold them erect on account of the tops
being so heavy. / have few trees that
purchased and planted out that are 8 years
old from the nut, and at this writing have
nuts on them. am so well pleased from
my success with the growth of pecans in the
flatwoods that shall put out 900 more
next spring.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
Popular Science.

Corliss, the great engine-builder, made no
attempt at invention until he was IS years
pears old His first effort in this line was a
machine for sewing shoes, which was a fail
ure.
The monks of st. Bernard have brought
the telephone into their service of mercy.
The famous hospice is now in telephone
communication with the Cantine de PROF.
and the village of st. Pierre, as also with
the Cantine de Fontinte and the village of
st. Cheney on the Italian side.
A forgotten chemical product brought out
by Dode more than 20 years ago is now pre-
served in Paris museum. 1t is trans
parent reflector, in which the image OF an
object may be viewed as in mirror, or
through which the object itself may be seen
as through common glass. IL Is simply o
piece Of glass covered with thin layer Of
platinum 1t was prepared by combining
a mixture of plntinic chloride and essence
Of lavender with fiux consisting of essence
of lavender and borate and oxide Of lead,
spreading the whole on the glass with fine
brush, and then baking in muflle at low
red heat. This old discovery ought to serve
some useful purpose.
Prof Soxheit, of Munich, suggests the
following plan for the ready detection Of
bogus butter: He proposes TO make law
that all bogus butter must be mixed during
the preparation with phenolphtalein, which
Is made out of one of the products of the
dry distillation of tar, and one gramme OF
il will be enough for 100 kilogrammes of
bogus butter. The butter can then be Of
fered for sale, colored yellow or uncolorc1,
or in any way desired, and the phenolphta-
lein will not be seen at all But by adding
a solution of soda, or ammonia and water,
or even teaspoonful Of water and the ash
of cigar, 10 piece OF butter the size of n
bean the whole Of the butter win become
nice red IL IL be bogus butter or If bogus
butter be mixed with 1t.
M. Corun has presented to the French
Academy a memoir by NJ. f. hereafter on
the theory Of the telephone. Mr. Mercadier
maintains that the transmission OF articu-
late speech is chiefly If not solely tue result
Of molecular motion in the plate Of the re-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
Kelsey's Plum.

Kelsey's Plum is getting pretty strong
foothold in Florida The Florida Dispatch
speaks of it as follows: OF all our new fruits
the Kelsey is, perhaps, attracting most at
tention from our fruit growers, and it GER
tainly promises well; we say promises
well, for we do not wish to go upon record
as endorsing unreservedly fruit that has
not yet been grown long enough here to de-
terInine fully its adaptability to our soil and
climate nor its proftableness for market. But
we can say that it has behaved as well as
any fruit could behave in tho three years it
has been grown in this State 1t has thus
far proven vigorous, healthy and prolific in
every section of the State. The trees are
not only prodigiously fruitful, but also bear
when very young. The fruit is also very
large and of fine quality. Thus far neither
fruit nor tree has been seriously attacked by
insects or disease.
The Kelsey seems especially adapted to
Florida. Although grown in Georgia and
other Southern States, it nowhere thrives SO
well as in Florida, and furthermore our sea-
son is so much earlier that we do not come
in competition with other sections in mar
ket.
Unlike the LeConte, Kaki, Guava and
other valuable Southern fruits, the Kelsey
will take" in all markets; the taste for this
fruit is not acquired, it is not necessary to
develope market before it will sell Plums
always command a good price. Only last
week one of re most extensive fruit grow
ers of Georgia, man who raises peaches,
apples and pears in almost unlimited guam
titles, said to us that he made more from
his Wild Goose plums in seasons when he
obtained good crop than from any other
fruit Every one knows how eagerly the
California plums are sought in market The
Kelsey surpasses both in appearance and
quality. Its excellent shipping qualities
enable the grower TO gather the fruit before
it is ripe, and to get it into the most distant
markets in the country not only in sound,
but also in a perfectly ripened condition;
these merits commend it to every fruit
grower in the State If it fulfills its prom
Use, and we have every confidence in its
doing this, it is destined to rank second in
importance only to the orange as pomolo-
gical product in Florida
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
Harvesting Tobacco.

A writer in the New York Herald saws
that tobacco plants should be topped when
the leaves are making their most vigorous
growth, so that after topping they will con-
tinue to grow and attain the highest degree
of perfection. The flower stalks should be
pinched off below the third upper leaf 1t
is not advisable to defer topping till the
flowers open else the leaves will not make
as good growth, and the plants will run
largely to suckers. These suckers have to
be frequently removed. The proper time
for harvesting depends upon varied circum
stances. Under average conditions the
plants are allowed to stand fifteen days
after having been topped; in dry and hot
season the leaves will ripen in thirteen or
fourteen days, and in cold, wet weather,
sixteen to eighteen days may be required
AS the leaves mature they become darker
in color and assume mottled or marbled
appearance; they also lose the fine down on
their under side and appear thick and
leathery to the touch, while previously they
were soft.
The leaves should not be cut until the dew
upon them has entirely evapQrated On hot
days not more should be cut than can be
brought under cover the same day, else
there is danger of sunburn, and when cut
ting the plants the butts should be placed
toward the sun. After the plants have
wilted sufficiently so that they may be han
died without breaking the leaves, the plants
are placed in piles of 20 or 25 each. Five or
seven plants are then put on each lath, &C
cording to the size of the plants, and these
laths are conveyed TO the shed upon plat
form wagon or rack especially made for the
purpose. In the shed the laths should be
six or seven inches apart to admit of free
circulation between the plants.